AI + ML Manhunt: 'Armed and dangerous' MIT AI scientist sought by cops probing grad student's gun murder Victim shot dead a week after he got engaged to fiancée 12 Feb 01:10 | 11
Security Apple iOS 14.5 will hide Safari users' IP addresses from Google's Safe Browsing Another privacy improvement from Cupertino, just a small one 12 Feb 02:20 | 39
Personal Tech Microsoft tells Biden administration to adopt Australia’s pay-for-news plan Making Google and Facebook cough up could help USA’s currently fragile democracy, argues Pres Brad Smith 12 Feb 03:29 | 31
Personal Tech Biden administration pauses pursuit of TikTok and WeChat Chinese New Year gift for Beijing, maybe for Oracle too 12 Feb 05:01 | 14
Software Microsoft issues emergency fix for Wi-Fi foul-up delivered hot and fresh on Patch Tuesday WPA3 access may cause Blue Screen of Death 12 Feb 06:01 | 38
Networks Myanmar Junta delivers harsh cyber law and more IP blocking orders Gives itself power to snoop and block anything, anytime – but at least it’s also consulted with industry 12 Feb 06:54 | 25
AI + ML Machine-learning model creates creepiest Doctor Who images yet – by scanning the brain of a super fan Oodkind look even more terryfing 12 Feb 07:28 | 53
On Call We know it's hard to get your kicks at work – just do it away from a wall switch powering anything important Does your office have a singing swinger? 12 Feb 08:15 | 132
Something for the Weekend, Sir? Dept of If I'd Known 20 Years Ago: Call centres, roosting chickens, and Bitcoin Getting it half-right means you got it half-wrong 12 Feb 09:30 | 72
Updated helloSystem: Pre-alpha FreeBSD project chases simplicity and elegance by taking cues from macOS Rethinking the desktop with reference to Apple's early UI guidelines 12 Feb 10:29 | 139
Networks O2 UK overcharged exiting customers by £40.7m over 7+ years: Ofcom slams senior managers, fines it £10.5m Nearly 8 years of extra fees after it 'initially identified issues' with billing in 2011... but nothing came of it 12 Feb 11:44 | 20
Bootnotes Court witness describes how Autonomy founder Lynch would wash his rear-end in US prison showers and dorms When people called the Brit software biz a s*** show... ah, never mind 12 Feb 12:27 | 20
Offbeat Looking for the perfect Valentine's gift? How about a week of retro gaming BBC Microlympics? Chuckie Egg and Elite? Oh you shouldn't have! 12 Feb 13:15 | 53
Job alert Looking for a new IT job? This week's list includes roles for software engineers, DC managers, cloud experts and support specialists If you're keen to place an ad, contact us – it's free 12 Feb 14:04 |
Security Footfallcam kerfuffle: Firm apologises, promises to fix product after viral Twitter thread, infoseccer backlash Accusations of grey hat infosec consultancy extortion ring drop away after El Reg intervenes 12 Feb 15:21 | 32
Software How many low-code products does an enterprise software biz need? Ask SAP, it's just swallowed another one AppGyver disappears inside juggernaut's attempts to nurture more modern image 12 Feb 16:44 | 5
Off-Prem New Jersey blames Microsoft for weeks of outages, glitches plaguing coronavirus vaccine sign-up website Promised software may never work as specified, it is feared 12 Feb 19:49 | 24
Networks Huawei invokes 140-year-old law at England's High Court in latest bid to thwart CFO's US-Canada extradition Lawyers say they need HSBC UK Powerpoint slides to undo Uncle Sam's case against Meng Wanzhou 12 Feb 20:34 | 46
Security Supermicro spy chips, the sequel: It really, really happened, and with bad BIOS and more, insists Bloomberg Server maker says latest article is 'a mishmash of disparate allegations' 12 Feb 23:28 | 124